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Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions

Spin-polarized supercurrents can be generated with magnetic inhomogeneity at a ferromagnet/spin-singlet-superconductor interface. In such systems, complex magnetic inhomogeneity makes it difficult to functionalise the spin-polarized supercurrents. However, spin-polarized supercurrents in ferromagnet...

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Autores principales: Anwar, M. S., Kunieda, M., Ishiguro, R., Lee, S. R., Sow, C., Robinson, J. W. A., Yonezawa, S., Noh, T. W., Maeno, Y.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31676832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52003-0
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author Anwar, M. S.
Kunieda, M.
Ishiguro, R.
Lee, S. R.
Sow, C.
Robinson, J. W. A.
Yonezawa, S.
Noh, T. W.
Maeno, Y.
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Kunieda, M.
Ishiguro, R.
Lee, S. R.
Sow, C.
Robinson, J. W. A.
Yonezawa, S.
Noh, T. W.
Maeno, Y.
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description Spin-polarized supercurrents can be generated with magnetic inhomogeneity at a ferromagnet/spin-singlet-superconductor interface. In such systems, complex magnetic inhomogeneity makes it difficult to functionalise the spin-polarized supercurrents. However, spin-polarized supercurrents in ferromagnet/spin-triplet-superconductor junctions can be controlled by the angle between magnetization and spin of Copper pairs (d-vector), that can effectively be utilized in developing of a field of research known as superconducting spintronics. Recently, we found induction of spin-triplet correlation into a ferromagnet SrRuO(3) epitaxially deposited on a spin-triplet superconductor Sr(2)RuO(4), without any electronic spin-flip scattering. Here, we present systematic magnetic field dependence of the proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions. It is found that induced triplet correlations exhibit strongly anisotropic field response. Such behaviour is attributed to the rotation of the d-vector of Sr(2)RuO(4). This anisotropic behaviour is in contrast with the vortex dynamic. Our results will stimulate study of interaction between ferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity.
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spelling pubmed-68251202019-11-12 Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions Anwar, M. S. Kunieda, M. Ishiguro, R. Lee, S. R. Sow, C. Robinson, J. W. A. Yonezawa, S. Noh, T. W. Maeno, Y. Sci Rep Article Spin-polarized supercurrents can be generated with magnetic inhomogeneity at a ferromagnet/spin-singlet-superconductor interface. In such systems, complex magnetic inhomogeneity makes it difficult to functionalise the spin-polarized supercurrents. However, spin-polarized supercurrents in ferromagnet/spin-triplet-superconductor junctions can be controlled by the angle between magnetization and spin of Copper pairs (d-vector), that can effectively be utilized in developing of a field of research known as superconducting spintronics. Recently, we found induction of spin-triplet correlation into a ferromagnet SrRuO(3) epitaxially deposited on a spin-triplet superconductor Sr(2)RuO(4), without any electronic spin-flip scattering. Here, we present systematic magnetic field dependence of the proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions. It is found that induced triplet correlations exhibit strongly anisotropic field response. Such behaviour is attributed to the rotation of the d-vector of Sr(2)RuO(4). This anisotropic behaviour is in contrast with the vortex dynamic. Our results will stimulate study of interaction between ferromagnetism and unconventional superconductivity. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6825120/ /pubmed/31676832 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52003-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Anwar, M. S.
Kunieda, M.
Ishiguro, R.
Lee, S. R.
Sow, C.
Robinson, J. W. A.
Yonezawa, S.
Noh, T. W.
Maeno, Y.
Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions
title Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions
title_full Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions
title_fullStr Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions
title_full_unstemmed Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions
title_short Anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in Au/SrRuO(3)/Sr(2)RuO(4) junctions
title_sort anomalous anisotropic behaviour of spin-triplet proximity effect in au/srruo(3)/sr(2)ruo(4) junctions
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31676832
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52003-0
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